Gizmo Goes All Calls Free...Mostly — VoIPWatch has learned that tomorrow GizmoProject will introduce their "All Calls Free" program. According to the company the "new program gives active Gizmo Project users unlimited free calling to landlines and mobile phones in 60 countries around the world.

Voice, Now Nearly Free — First it was Skype, then came Jajah, and now it is the turn of Gizmo Project to offer almost free voice calls to the old PSTN numbers. We are seeing the price of plain vanilla voice collapse to almost zero. (Some argue, with Skype to Skype calling, those prices are already zero.)

Skype, All Talk, Just Not Facts — Every quarter, one hopes EBay will provide some clarity on Skype, and what kind of success the company is having with its $2.6 billion purchase. And every quarter, one is left scratching his head, pondering over meaningless metrics.

Macs see growth spurt — With a wider range of systems available, consumers have been snapping Macs up, giving them a growth boost that outpaced the rest of the market. — Macintosh shipments were up 12 percent compared with last year, Apple Computer said Wednesday during its third-quarter earnings call.

What is the 1% rule? — It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it. — It's a meme that emerges strongly …

Promotion Firms Caught in Internet-Gambling Crackdown — Accused of Acting as Fulfillment House for Prizes — WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — Miami-based promotion and fulfillment firms that have done work for major marketers, such as McDonald's, are now caught up in a federal government crackdown on internet gambling.

New Feature: Link within a Video — Has this ever happened to you? — You're watching this documentary on monkeys and then halfway through, this monkey does the funniest thing ever. So of course, you want nothing more than to share this hilarious monkey moment with your friends.

Google Accessible Search — Google released a new product called Accessible Search, a "web search for the visually challenged." Though result pages are somewhat less cluttered compared to normal Google results, the point here is not so much to create accessible results formatting, but to rank accessible results higher.

A Sound Marketplace For Recorded Music — Here in Washington, there is nothing more amusing than watching business interests work themselves up into a righteous frenzy over a threat to their monopoly profits from a new technology or some upstart with a different business model.

EU: Town Can't Build Fiber-Optic Network — AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — The European Commission on Wednesday banned a small Dutch town from building its own fiber-optic network, saying the plan would be unfair to broadband companies - a decision with potentially far-reaching consequences.

News about Google News — InfoWorld's online folks have long complained about the absence of InfoWorld news stories from Google News. Here is the most striking illustration of the problem: — 1. WWW.google.com/search?q=site:WWW.infowo rld.com — Results 1 - 10 of about 2,040,000